We have been hosting our annual Economic Outlook breakfast since January of 2009. If you were unable to attend, fear not as we’ve boiled down the main points and also updated our popular annual Asset Class Return Quilt.
After an extremely pleasant and unusual 2017, equity markets are now doing what they normally do. They are going up AND down, sometimes violently.
Prudence can be a son-of-a-gun. You wear that bulky uncomfortable life jacket and never even fall off the boat. How many times have you wrinkled your clothes in the car from the snug seatbelt only to find your way safely to your destination? This is how diversifying an investment portfolio can feel sometimes.
As I think about risk, I often reflect on why we put ourselves through the volatility of stocks; the highs, the lows, and every seemingly destructive blip in between. It boils down to alternatives really.
Seems everywhere I go these days there are people…lots of people…everywhere. I can’t remember the last flight I took that had an open seat. Can you? I’ve been doing a fair amount of driving lately and getting stuck in traffic, regardless of the time of day, is the norm. I pop over to the mall sometimes for a quick lunch and it’s getting harder and harder to find a parking spot. So what gives and why should you love it?